The two hundred and forty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian nation to the large-scale Russian invasion continues.
The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, and concentrates its efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, at the same time, it does not stop trying to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it continues to strike critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.
During the current day, the enemy launched 3 missiles and 14 air strikes, carried out more than 50 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
Areas of 30 settlements in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions were hit by the enemy.
The situation in the Volyn and Poliske directions has not changed significantly. The Republic of Belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs on the territory of Ukraine remains.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
- in the Siversk direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Ryzhivka, Ukrainian and Fotovizh settlements of the Sumy region;
- in the Slobozhansk direction - from mortars, barrel, and jet artillery, in the areas of Vilkhuvatka, Vovchansk, Dvorichna, Krasne, and Staritsa settlements;
- on the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions - from mortars, barrels and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Nevske, Bilogorivka, Stelmakhivka and Yampolivka;
- in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Yakovlivka, Klishchiivka, Soledar and Mayorsk;
- in the Avdiiv direction - from tanks and artillery of various calibers, in the areas of Vodyane, Pavlivka, Maryinka and Vesele settlements.
- The enemy did not conduct active offensive actions in the Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. Fired at the positions of the Defense Forces and civilian infrastructure in the areas of more than 25 settlements along the contact line.
More than 25 settlements were affected by fire in the Southern Buzka direction. The enemy continues the engineering equipment of the positions. Up to 30 UAV flights of various types were carried out to conduct aerial reconnaissance.
The so-called "evacuation" from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region continues. In settlement of Kachkarivka, the occupiers gave the residents of the settlement two days to evict from their homes and evacuate. Additional roadblocks were set up on the "evacuation" routes to the temporarily occupied Crimea, where careful care and checks of the civilian population were organized.
At the same time, another batch of mobilized Russian servicemen arrived in the settlements of Chervyn Mayak, Novoraysk and Zmiivka.
The occupiers have intensified filtering measures in settlement of Velyka Bilozerka, Zaporizhzhia region.
According to the updated information, it was confirmed that the enemy's manpower and equipment were damaged in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region. Thus, artillery units of the Defense Forces in settlement of Novovodyane destroyed an ammunition warehouse, up to 5 trucks with ammunition, and 3 D-30 guns. Up to 110 enemy servicemen were wounded in the areas of Tokmak, Molochansk, and Kinsky Rozdory settlements. The occupiers carefully conceal the number of dead.
Aviation of the Defense Forces during the current day made 24 strikes. It was confirmed that 20 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment and 4 positions of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems were hit.
Units of missile troops and artillery hit the command post, 6 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 4 ammunition warehouses and other critical military objects of the occupiers.
Glory to Ukraine!
